Night Vision

I’m driving in a parking lot - or, really, a series of interconnected ones. They seem to belong to a college and possibly other educational institutions as well, as I have to wait at times for crossing guards to allow students to pass. It seems to be early morning, and still dark out. I arrived earlier than I had to, which seems to be related somehow to why I came all the way out to this lot instead of closer.

I park the car, and as I start walking across the lot, I encounter a rat. Since this is one of my dreams, this results in a conversation. I’m familiar with this particular rat but cannot recall his name, so I ask him what it is. He tells me he’s DJ Rat, which is another very good candidate for the second least creative name for a dream character I’ve ever recorded.

DJ Rat has a large wad of colorful bills that could be Euros, and he wants to give them to me for some reason. I’m reluctant to accept, but he keeps insisting, and I start to think that maybe just taking it is the right thing to do. What use would a rat have for money, anyway? And there’s nothing stopping me from using some of it to buy him something.

Later in the dream, I’m inside one of the campus buildings (probably that’s what it is). I’m with a man and woman at a desk where the man is picking up old artwork of his. He intends to just get rid of it, but I say I’ll take it. I look over what seem to be several very large calendar pages, and another large painting with an interesting vibe to it. Not quite nightmarish, but maybe kind of a fever dream quality. It shows a mostly barren landscape at night with a very large canine, possibly a coyote, holding the moon like a tennis ball in its disproportionately elongated jaws. The moon has a round pink sticker on it stating “50% off”.

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